Conflict in Healthcare Organizations

Distributional conflict in organizations

Hierarchy can function as an instrument to channel influence activities or power struggles in organizations. Contrary to what has frequently been argued, we show that multi-divisional organizations may involve lower influence costs than single-tier organizations, even though they offer more scope for organizational conflict and have more executives that can be influenced. These benefits derive ...

Conflict in health care organizations.

Contracts and Conflict in Organizations

In many organizations, the way that incentive problems are alleviated is not via contracts, but rather who is hired. This paper offers a theory of targeted hiring, and how its role changes as contracting becomes poorer. ∗University of Chicago, GSB. Email: [email protected]. Thanks to Wouter Dessein, Bob Gibbons, and seminar participants at the University of Chicago, Columbia U...

Strategic planning in healthcare organizations.

Strategic planning is a completely valid and useful tool for guiding all types of organizations, including healthcare organizations. The organizational level at which the strategic planning process is relevant depends on the unit's size, its complexity, and the differentiation of the service provided. A cardiology department, a hemodynamic unit, or an electrophysiology unit can be an appropriat...

Business Intelligence in Healthcare Organizations

The management of healthcare organizations starts to recognize the relevance of the definition of care products in relation to management information. In the turmoil between costs, care-results and patient satisfaction the right balance is needed and can be found in upcoming information and communication technology. The ICT developments are a challenge in two directions, inside toward massive D...